The number of foreign tourists arriving in Bangkok are increasing all the time. Tourism is big business for Thailand. Unfortunately it is also big business for the scam artists. Over recent years I have seen an increase in the number of people on the streets of Bangkok scamming tourists. You can see two at work here. There were a total of SIX scammers here trying to extort money from foreign tourists. This was happening in front of palace officials and police who were doing nothing to stop it.